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Professor Ning Wu from the Colorado School of Mines speaks about the research being conducted with NASA Glenn...
Researchers discovered what is thought to be the first kind of molecule to form after the Big Bang. While theory...
This graphic shows a theoretical path of a water molecule on Ceres. Some water molecules fall into cold, dark...
Scientists on the airborne observatory SOFIA detected the first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe....
This computer graphic depicts the relative complexity of crystallizing large proteins in order to study their...
Professor David Marr from the Colorado School of Mines talks about Crystallization and Folding of Complex Colloidal...
A team of astronomers has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized...
Jim Green (second from left), director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters...
Rob Green, project instrument scientist, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA...
NASA image release January 10, 2011 The Triangulum, located nearly 3 million light years from Earth, is another far...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes the following without narration: * SOFIA aircraft operations,...
Roger Clark, team member, Cassini spacecraft Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and co-investigator, Moon...
Jim Green (far left), director, Planetary Science Division, Science MissionDirectorate at NASA Headquarters in...
This artist conception symbolically represents complex organic molecules, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,...
This graphic illustrates where astronomers at last found oxygen molecules in space -- near the star-forming core of...
One of the biggest questions in planetary science is whether life ever arose on Mars, and NASA is sending a...
This illustration shows how oxygen is generated at Europa as a result of interaction between the Jovian moon's icy...
This artist image illustrates vibrating buckyballs -- spherical molecules of carbon discovered in space for the...
This graph displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory found oxygen molecules in a dense patch of gas and dust adjacent to star-forming...
This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide CO, a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular...
The first examinations of Martian soil by the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Mars Curiosity...
Radiation from Jupiter can destroy molecules on Europa's surface. Material from Europa's ocean that ends up on the...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has lifted the cosmic veil to see an otherwise hidden newborn star, while detecting the...